Self-closing trunk-bag



H. K. LIKLY.

SELF CLOSING TRUNK BAG.

7 APPLICATION FILED FEB. 28. I917. 1,347,390.

Patented uly 20, 1920.

INVEIVTUH MA TTOR/VEVS UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY KENNETH LIKLY, OF ROCHESTER, NEVT YORK, ASS IGNOR TO HENRY LIKLY COMPANY, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

SELF-CLOSING TRUNK-BAG.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 20, 1920.

Application filed February 28, 1917. Serial No. 151,424.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY KENNETH LiKLY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Rochester, in the county of 'Monroe and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in it may be opened. To these and other ends the invention consists in certain improvements and combinations of parts, all as will be hereinafter more fully described, the novel features being pointed out in the claims at the end of the specification.

In'the drawings:

Figure 1 is a front view in elevation showiiig the bag in its normal suspended position within one of the sections of a wardrobe trunk, and i Fig. 2 is an enlarged sectional side elevation through the trunk and the bag, showing by full lines the normally closed bag within the trunk, and indicating by dotted lines the adjustment of the opened bag.

Similar reference characters throughout the two views indicate the same parts.

In wardrobe trunks and other inclosures it is desirable to provide a normally closed bag adjustable to an open position and in which certain articles such as shoes, soiled clothes and other fabrics or articles needing laundrying, may be inserted or from which they may be removed. In the present instance I prefer to sus end the bag within the trunk by means 0 vertically disposed swinging members parts of which are movable to a horizontal position in which the bag is opened, the bag when released falling back to closed position upon the swinging members.

In the drawings is shown the body 10 of a wardrobe trunk or other case having the spaced rods 11 supported near the top thereof and preferably upon the rectangular frame or support 12 slidably mounted upon the primary guides 13 carried by the brackets ll, said brackets being secured to the inner walls of the trunk body by any suitable means. The rods 11 form secondary guides from which the bag 15 is pivotally suspended so as to be bodily movable forward and backward in the trunk body.

The front and rear upper edges of the bag 15 are connected to reinforcing bars or straps 16 and 17 respectively, through which in the illustrated embodiment of the invention extend the spaced swinging rods or members 18 suspended from'the swivel snaps or hooks 19 supported by the rings 20 which are free to move upon the rods 11, as clearly shown in Fig. 2. Thus the members 18 and the hooks 19 may be regarded as a jointed rod. The bag-holding strip or bar 17 is free to slide upon the rods 18, whereby the bag is opened. This is done by grasping the tongue or strap 21 secured to the strip or bar 16 and moving it upwardly and outwardly until the rods 18 are brought to a substantially horizontal position, whereupon the bar 17 is moved rearwardly upon the rods to open the bag, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 2. Upon release of the bag the same will fall back to closed position as shown in full lines in Fig. 2, the strip or bar 17 automatically descending on the rods 18 until it strikes the bar 16 where it will remain to form a closed joint to prevent dust and other foreign matter from entering the bag.

The bag, if desired, before being opened, may be moved to a position outside'of the casing 10 either by sliding the rings 20 to the front ends of the rod 11, or by moyi LL the frame outwardly upon its guides. It

. will be understood that while I have shown the bag suspended in a trunk or section thereof that the same may be hung in a closet or room and employed for holding various articles other than wearing apparel for which it is particularly adapted.

While it is desirable to suspend the bag upon a slidably mounted frame it may without departing from the spirit of the invention be hung from a stationary support in which position it will serve the purpose for which it is intended.

It will also be seen that by raising and lowering rods 18 above the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2 the cross strip 17 hand by simply raising the tongue 21.

I claim as my invention:

1. The combination with a support and.

a rod pivotally suspended therefrom, of a bag, said rod being attached adjacent its end remote from said support to one side of the mouth of the bag while the opposite side of the mouth of the bag is slidably secured to said rod above the first mentioned -side when the rod is in a position normally depending from the support, the pivotal support permitting movement of the rod above the horizontal plane through the. pivotal support whereby the slidable side of the mouth of the bag may automatically slide on the rod to open the bag.

2. The combination with a casing of a plurality of parallel spaced members secured within and pivotally attached thereto adjacent an end of the members, and adapted to normally depend from their points of pivotal attachment, a pair of strips carrier by said'members one of said strips beine secured against movementlongitudinally or the members in a direction away from the pointsof pivotal attachment and the other strip being slidable along said members intermediate the first strip and the points of pivotal attachment of the members, a bag secured to said first strip along one of the sides of its mouth while the opposite side of the mouth of the bag is attached to the second strip,

The combination with a trunk of a pair of bag supporting rods slidable relatively vto said trunk pivotallysupported Within the trunk and normally depending fromtheir pivotal support, a pair of cross strips, one of which is secured to said rods a ainst movement thereon away from the pivotal support and the other slidable longitudinally along said rods intermediate the first strip and pivotal support and a bag with one side of its mouth secured to the firstmentioned strip, the opposite side of its mouth secured to the second mentioned strip, the second strip resting on the first when the rods are in normally depending position, the sliding movement of'the sec- 0nd strip along said rods being limited by the size of the mouth of the bag.

of the bag is free for movement longitudi v nally of said rods and intermediate the first mentioned side of the mouth and the pivotal end of the rods, the pivotal support permitting swinging of the rods above the horizon- V tal plane through the pivotal support whereby the second mentionedside of the mouth of the'bag may slide along the rods under the influence of gravity to automatically open the bag when the rods are in such position above the horizontal plane through the pivotal support. 7 r

5. The combination with a slidable support, of a pair of spaced rods mounted upon said support, a jointed rod a-djustably suspendedfrom each of said spaced rods, a bag one side of the upper mouth of which is supportedupon the rods and its other side being movablethereon, and means carried by the jointed rods for holding the bag normally closed. 6. The combination with a slidable support,oif a pair'of spaced rods mounted upon said support, a rod adjustably suspended from each of said spaced rods each of the suspended rods'being jointed and compris ing' relative short and longer parts, strips threaded on the longer parts of the suspended rods, and a bag having the opposite sides of its mouth sustained by said strips which normally rest upon each other to hold the bag closed.

7. The combination with a support, a

swinging member comprising two jointed HENRY KENNETH LIKLY. 

